Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo!
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
—Eric Berne (1910–70) Canadian-American Psychiatrist
Design in art is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
—D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Literary Critic
Less is more.
—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) German-born American Architect, Academic
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) German-born American Architect, Academic
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
—Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American Architect
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
—Charles J. Givens (1941–98) American Self-Help Writer
A single word often betrays a great design.
—Jean Racine (1639–1699) French Dramatist
It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
—Richard Steele (1672–1729) Irish Writer, Politician
The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.
—E. B. White (1985–99) American Essayist, Humorist
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) Irish Poet, Dramatist
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
—Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English Novelist, Scriptwriter
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.
—David Hockney (b.1937) English Painter, Draughtsman
Less is more.
—Robert Browning (1812–89) English Poet
Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
—Terence Conran (1931–2020) English Designer, Businessman
Bold in design, but timid in execution.
—Latin Proverb
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